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125 - Joy Camps Group Portrait of Younger Campers

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of younger campers and counselors (undated). Original caption notes: "Our youngest Cabin group during the season just passed. These ...
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129 - Group Portrait of Cabin IV

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of campers and counselors, with cabin in the background. Original caption notes: "Cabin IV — the older of the two groups making up C...
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130 - Joy Camps Staff

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of Joy Camps staff (undated). Camp owner and co-director, Barbara Ellen Joy, is seated front row, third from the left, with co-direc...
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131 - Scenes from Joy Camps Pageant

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying four photographs. These images capture various scenes from a pageant staged outdoors, with a lake and distant sh...
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132 - Camp Craft Activities

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying four photographs. Original caption notes: "Scenes from camp craft activities during 1940..." (the remainder of t...
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133 - Joy Camps Barbecue

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying three photographs. Two of the photographs show a large pig carcass on a spit over a grilling area. Another photo...
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135 - Cabin IV at Bedtime

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Description: Large group of campers outside their cabin, dressed in pajamas and bathrobes. Some of them are using dippers with metal pails; on the far left a row of dip...
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136 - Joy Camps Directors

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Description: Outdoor quarter-length portrait of Joy Camps co-directors, Barbara Ellen Joy (on the left) and Marjorie Camp (on the right). Both women are wearing white s...
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137 - Wartime Efforts at Joy Camps

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying two photographs and two captions with extensive details of the camp's war efforts. Several campers in each photo...
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138 - First Aid and Water Safety at Joy Camps

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying three photographs. Two of the photographs show campers and counselors working in resuscitation classes along the...
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139 - First Aid Bandaging at Joy Camps

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Description: Two campers kneel on a blanket on the ground, demonstrating bandaging. Several other campers are gathered around the blanket, some on the ground, some stan...
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140 - Joy Camps Military Visitor

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying three photographs. In one a man poses in a white military uniform holding his hat, with a lake and distant shore...
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141 - Three Young Campers with Toys

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Description: Three young campers sit in a shady, grassy area, each with a toy. One has a stuffed animal horse, one has a toy canoe, and one has a toy sail boat. All thr...
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142 - Swimming Class at Joy Camps

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Description: Water scene, with many campers in swimsuits lined up on a dock, some standing, some sitting. A number of campers are also in the water, wearing swim caps. ...
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143 - Campers Working in Farm Field

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying two photographs. In one, a number of campers are kneeling, working in a farmer's field. A tractor and line of tr...
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144 - Joy Camps Campers in Different Scene

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying two photographs. In one, two young campers wearing swimming caps, bathing suits, and towels stand in a grassy ar...
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151 - Young Swimmer Sitting on Dock

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Description: Close-up of a young camper sitting on a dock wearing a swimming suit, and holding a floating device shaped like a fish or seahorse. She has her hair in two...
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152 - Two Campers in Sleeping Bags

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Description: Two campers yawn and stretch from their sleeping bags near a shoreline. Trees, the lake, and far shoreline are in the background.
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153 - Joy Camp Buglers

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Description: Four campers in uniform stand in a line, each holding a bugle to their mouth. Original caption notes: "These buglers are sending an urgent call for YOU to ...
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154 - Sunset at Joy Camps

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Description: View across water towards three campers in a canoe who are silhouetted against a sunset over a lake. The tree-lined shoreline is in the far background.

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